He thought of Donald Sutherland opening his mouth at the end of the movie and screaming the alien scream. He thought that's what Stover would do if he saw him. “Do you understand?” Stuart says to Hans and Ariel. “I told the truth.
How is this book unique?
In this collection of seven cases, that eminent lecturer on medical jurisprudence, Dr. John Thorndyke, makes bones, and blood, fingerprints, and tobacco sing out to proclaim the guilt or innocence of those involved.
In the conventional "detective story" the interest is made to focus on the question, "Who did it?" The identity of the criminal is a secret that is jealously guarded up to the very end of the book, and its disclosure forms the final climax.
He claimed to have invented the inverted detective story (a crime fiction in which the commission of the crime is described at the beginning, usually including the identity of the perpetrator, with the story then describing the detective's ...
Short stories of crime and mystery involving Dr. Thorndyke, the "Scientific Investigator." This also happens to be the book where Austin Freeman claimed to have created the inverted detective story or "howcatchem.
He stops work on his second book of poetry and writes a novel formed from these images. After the novel's publication, Liam has a shocking revelation.
This is the challenge two brothers decided to face. You may think that they were willing to help each other but actually the story goes another way. The younger brother got a magical spear and he managed to kill the boar first.
1979: 17-year-old Alice Pearson can't wait to graduate and escape her small town.
The Singing Bone
We are happy to announce this classic book. Many of the books in our collection have not been published for decades and are therefore not broadly available to the readers.
A surprising amount of nonsense has been talked about conscience.
The Case of Oscar Brodski A Case of Premeditation The Echo of a Mutiny A Wastrel's Romance The Old Lag
He stops work on his second book of poetry and writes a novel formed from these images. After the novel's publication, Liam has a shocking revelation.
How is this book unique?
Freeman introduces five distinct tales of intrigue, romance, mutiny and murder. The ingenuity of these detective stories lies in their fresh and original approach.
We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public.
The peculiar construction of the first four stories in the present collection will probably strike both reader and critic and seem to call for some explanation, which I accordingly proceed to supply.In the conventional "detective story" the ...
In the topsy turvy world of 'The Singing Bone', Richard Austin Freeman presents us with a solution. The reader is asked to deduce how different mysteries were solved rather than...
A surprising amount of nonsense has been talked about conscience.